Quail guns
 

28 gauge

20 gauge

16 gauge on 0 frame

Quail habitat

Mills you forgot the 410"s :) Nice looking cover, reminds me of Morrison Pines.
Quail guns are like grouse guns the perfect one is the next one:whistle:

One of these days I will probably get a 410. The thing is, you can get another 28 for less money and 28's are the top.

The cover is a lot like Morrison Pines. It is a lot thicker and you have to work to get to the birds.

I like the thick stuff reminds me of grouse hunting. A 28 hammer gun is the best for quail.

The .410 doesn't really interest me, but the 28 is one of my favorite Parkers!

410 is the only one of the major gauges I don't have now, so will have to get it at some point.

Agree about 28's Reggie.

I wouldn't be without my 28's a VHE straight grip skeet, an up grade A1 special 2 barrel set and the W.R. Pape hammer gun. I must confess to a fondness for the Fox FE 410 however:eek:

Julia has a Marlin fake LC Smith 410 that has actually been a good gun for her. She was deadly with quail with that gun. She has lost interest in it now

A Remington GHE 410 would be perfect, but need to save up big time.

Hell! Tom Mix couldn't hit anything with a .410.

Those are nice! Here are a couple that would work also...

Fox A grade 20ga...

https://i.imgur.com/hXk6vXDl.jpg

and Fox Sterlingworth 20ga...

https://i.imgur.com/OeMoHRil.jpg

Very nice! Let's see what others have too

Mills;

Love those old 16’s. Yours appears to have many stories to tell. Care to share the details?

JDG

Well, I have owned it a week as of today. The first shot with it took a quail. It is well used but works fine as is.

88,000 sn range. Research letter has been ordered and it may turn up more info

all my quail guns have turned into squirl guns no birds around here....i have a d grade 20 ga damascus barrels a 20 ga v grade with factory 27 inch barrels and a 20 ga g grade with vulcan grade barrels 26 inch cly bore ...killed a few birds in kansas with cavlvin humbergwith that gun....thanks for that hunt calvin.....charlie

Not a classic quail gun but
 

Not a small bore but I sure would not hesitate to use it on quail with light loads. It is a 12 ga P with twist barrels on a 1 frame with factory 26" barrels. At 6lb 10oz it is a light weight and as fast handling as lightning. The opposite end of the quail gun spectrum.

Linder Daly Diamond grade 20, 24” bbls
London 28 back action hammer gun, 28”bbls
Raick Freres Belgium 20, 26”bbls

Trio of CSMC bird guns
 

First tow pictures are of my XE-16 29" barrels rooster hunting in Kansas, 28" barrels with P.A. woodcock. Two pictures of my DE-410, Two pictures of my DE-28 These three guns can do the work! SXS ohio

Here are just a few:whistle: What makes a good quail gun also makes for a good grouse gun :)

CHE 20
A1S upgrade 28
Fox FE 410
H&H 20
Purdey light game gun. A 6.25 lb 12 but with RST 2" 3/4oz loads it's a dream to carry and shoot. An up and coming favorite

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I think the order goes.....

Holland and Holland, Parker CE, Fox and then the short 2" Purdey :rotf::rotf:
Guess you have too many guns !

i have no idea how the pics got turned around.:whistle:

He clearly has more guns than he knows what to do with and should consider passing some on to more needy upland hunters

What do you want Mills, I'll fix you up, remember Other Peoples Money gets you guns today for money tomorrow:whistle:

What I really want is the GHE 410 and GHE 28 together on GI right now. Need to see if someone will take a family member I don't like . . .

In my opinion (there's 2 cents wasted) the CSM Fox is a better value than the Parker in 410:whistle:

nice gold work on those Foxes ,any idea who engraved them?

couple more.....
DeHaan Custom .410
W.R. Pape 16

In a few months I will present my Parker Quail Gun Project....It will be a custom VH 00 frame 28, with 24" factory parker barrels and straight stock.. weighing in at a svelte 4lbs 14 oz

My Fox was engraved by Richard Roy.

This was definitely some old Quail Hunters gun. Ordered into Atlanta Georgia and 1905. 26 inch barrel choke cylinder and mod. It weighs 6 pounds on the nose. No Quail round here but it works just fine on pheasant and grouse, oh yeah, DHE 16 O frame

Very nice Harold! You don't see many Parkers shipped to the South. I have one shipped to Virginia

I just picked up the 26” vh 20, 1909, shipped to South Carolina, choked cyl.and mod.
Dave Wolf performed his majicon the wrist and forend...there were 19 compound fractures in the wrist, and the forearm broken in half....no evidence of the trauma after Dave was through with it, Briley then removed 7 dents, and a dozen pellet dings, rejointed the gun, and it is ready for another 100 years...

Wow! Excellent. Photos?

Harold; You need to send that Bird Gun back down here where it belongs. That's as good as it gets for Georgia thickets. I have hunted with many gun in my time following bird dogs. This brings to mind the worst I ever tried to shoot quail with a Browning Superposed Lightning. Just did not work for me. The best for me is a VH 12ga 26in.

My kind of thread -- quail guns! Gosh, there have been some beauties posted here so far. Here are some of my better-at-hitting-those-brown-bombshell guns that brought me luck this past season. All of these guns have drops that suit my shooting, even if the LOPs vary somewhat. They are light, because we walk a lot between chances on our wild Midwestern Bobs.

1. A Cogswell and Harrison 16 bore. This old gun has beautiful Damascus barrels of 30 inches, choked a bit tight, but will reach out and get that second bird (or, if you're like me, the second shot after you miss with the first one). It weighs under 6 lbs. and is stocked to shoot high (my way of shooting).

2. An 1890 Dickson trigger-plate round action 12 bore. OK, not a small bore, but I shoot very light loads (7/8 oz) out of this gun that weighs 6 lbs. 3 oz. with a 15" LOP and 29 inch original Damascus barrels (and open chokes). It also has high stock dimensions.

3. A CSC Fox XE 16 gauge. 29 inch barrels choked cylinder and .012" This gun weighs 5 pounds 13 oz. Custom stocked to my measurements, it shoots where I look...if I don't get too excited and mount it too quickly (which is often the case).

4. The best darn quail gun I've ever shot -- a DHE 20 bore with 30 inch barrels choked to shoot 55%/65%...and also high. It has a large wrist, and the beefier nose to the stock. Once I became accustomed to it, my other guns feel a bit odd in the hand.

5. This gun -- a DHE 00 frame 28 gauge -- has yet to be blooded. I'm waiting for just the right time and place (and to start missing with the DHE 20!) It has 26 inch barrels and a 2 1/2" DH, again, the way I like them.

That 28 gauge sure is a nice one!

working on that....have been busy with lots of family stuff...but it sure looks cute in the cabinet! The big mistake I made was not taking any "before" pics, because I honestly thought the gun was un reparable. it has really nice original high dimensions...and I think I will be able to shoot it well....definitely bringing it to shoot 20 hammerless at the southern.,

Here are a couple more quail/grouse guns. They are GHE Damascus 20 26 inch bbls IC/M, VHE 20ga skeet gun, Gunner's gun (this ones great for everything:))
VHE 28 with 28 inch bbls choked skt in/skt out and W.R. Pape 28 hammer gun 28 inch bbls IC/M.

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Wow!

Here's a couple of quail/pheasant guns. I stick to the ubiquitous 12 gauge. I mostly hunt pheasant in KS and consider quail as a bonus bird.

1. Dickson RA from 1898; weighs about 6 lbs 4oz. Of course you need a Gordon to go along on the hunt.
http://parkerguns.org/forums/picture...ictureid=11729

2. A 12 gauge lighter than a typical 20 gauge at 5 lbs 8 oz. It works fine on pheasant or quail. A 2" H&H.
http://parkerguns.org/forums/picture...ictureid=11730

Ken

[QUOTE=Ken Hill, Of course you need a Gordon to go along on the hunt.


Ken[/QUOTE]

So true!